Media Assets

Speaking Topics:

How 26 Years of Trying to Fit Into the Wrong Life Led Me to Podcasting (And What That Taught Me About Building a Business That Feels Like Yours)

So many of us spend years trying to make the wrong thing work because we do not know there is another option. For me, that took 26 years. Leaving and going back to teaching three different times, a divorce I rarely talk about, having twins and a 3-year-old as a single mom, a hysterectomy in my 30s, panic attacks in a school nurse's office, and finally, one late night Google search that changed everything. A podcast showed me there was another way. And then I built my business helping women use their voice through podcasting to reach the people who need what they offer because I know firsthand that the right podcast at the right moment could change what someone believes is possible.

Every coach I have ever hired I found through a podcast. I heard them thinking out loud, heard how they explained things, heard their values before I ever saw a sales page, and hired them because of it. That is the experience I want to create for my clients' clients.

In this conversation I share the full story (the messy, non-linear version) and what it taught me about visibility, trust, and why the thing that feels most like home is usually the thing worth building your business around.

What a Podcast Did for Me That Social Media Never Could (and Why That Changes Everything About How You Think About Visibility)

I did not choose podcasting because I had a marketing strategy. I chose it because a podcast got me out of a career that was slowly making me sick. And then I started wondering, if audio could do that for someone who was desperate and exhausted and out of options, what could it do for someone's business? 

In this conversation I share what I have learned after producing over 1,000 episodes. That podcasting builds the kind of trust that changes what people believe is possible, and that social media was never designed to do that job no matter how consistent you are. This is not a "here is why you need a podcast" conversation. It is a "here is what happens when the right voice reaches the right person at the right time" conversation.

Three Times I Quit, One Thing That Kept Coming Back - What Podcasting Taught Me About Knowing What You Are Meant to Do

I quit teaching three times. Before that I had tried accounting and CPS work. I found my way to building an online business where I tried VA work, website design, Pinterest management, and falling in love with podcast management. I was marketing on social media, started a YouTube channel, and even tried to launch a coaching program that was not me. Every single time, I ended up back at the same thing. Podcasting.

In this conversation I talk about what it looks like to keep trying to make the wrong thing work, how I finally recognized the pattern, and what changed when I stopped running from the thing that kept coming back. The business angle is podcasting. But the conversation is really about what happens when you stop performing the version of yourself that was never quite right and start building from the thing that actually feels like home.

Your Podcast and Your Email List: The Two Business Assets That Work Better Together Than Either Does Alone

*This topic is best for email marketing or list-building focused shows

Online business owners tend to treat their podcast and their email list as two separate strategies. They should be working together. Your podcast attracts the right people into your world. Your email list converts them. When both are running together with intention, every episode you record ends up doing double the work.

In this conversation, we talk through exactly how to connect the two so listeners become subscribers, subscribers become buyers, and the whole system runs without daily posting.